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architecture and design magazineSun, 02 Aug 2015 21:49:42 +0000en-UShourly1http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2ADN Architectures adds V-shaped extension to Brussels bungalowhttp://www.dezeen.com/2014/08/28/adn-architectures-v-shaped-extension-house-and-brussels-bungalow/
http://www.dezeen.com/2014/08/28/adn-architectures-v-shaped-extension-house-and-brussels-bungalow/#commentsThu, 28 Aug 2014 12:29:22 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=529486Belgian firm ADN Architectures gave this wooden house extension in Brussels a V-shaped roofline that inverts the pointed gables of the existing property (+ slideshow). Named House AND, the single-storey addition was designed by ADN Architectures to provide an extra living room for a small low-rise house in one of the city's suburbs, which had […]

]]>Belgian firm ADN Architectures gave this wooden house extension in Brussels a V-shaped roofline that inverts the pointed gables of the existing property (+ slideshow).

Named House AND, the single-storey addition was designed by ADN Architectures to provide an extra living room for a small low-rise house in one of the city's suburbs, which had become too small for its owner.

"The Belgian territory is full of houses stemming from the industrialisation of housing," said architect David Henquinet, one of ADN Architectures' two principals.

"These pavilion-type homes remain the most widely produced and desired type, making affordable the 'ideal life' of a house with a garage and a garden that many Belgian citizens dream of."

"The flipside of these standardised houses is a reduction in quality, both in terms of space and integration to the urban landscape," he explained.

ADN Architectures designed a single-storey wooden structure to extend the corner of the gabled brick bungalow, with its V-shaped roof carefully planned to avoid the existing windows.

Narrow wooden battens cover its entire exterior, and also provide a new cladding for the end wall of the old building.

Windows on the more visible south and west elevations follow the proportions of the existing fenestration, while the garden-facing north elevation features a large clerestory window that brings in light throughout the day.

"Our response draws inspiration from the existing house in order to create contrast: an inverted roof in opposition with the existing traditional roof, less ordinary window framing for specific views on the outside environment, a wooden structure rather than the older masonry," said Henquinet.

A door on the north-east corner adds an additional garden entrance, and is built from wood to match the rest of the exterior.

The internal walls and ceiling are lined with engineered wooden boards. Both these and the formerly external brick wall have been painted white, unifying them with the rest of the interior.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2014/08/28/adn-architectures-v-shaped-extension-house-and-brussels-bungalow/feed/0Loft apartment with super-thin staircases by ADN Architectureshttp://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/26/loft-apartment-super-thin-staircases-adn-architectures/
http://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/26/loft-apartment-super-thin-staircases-adn-architectures/#commentsTue, 26 Nov 2013 06:00:05 +0000http://admin.dezeen.com/?p=390272Folded steel staircases lead to elevated rooms atop freestanding metal towers inside this old industrial building in Brussels that ADN Architectures has converted into an open-plan apartment (+ slideshow). Belgian studio ADN Architectures added the two-storey structures on opposite sides of the space, loosely dividing a living room at one end from a central dining […]

]]>Folded steel staircases lead to elevated rooms atop freestanding metal towers inside this old industrial building in Brussels that ADN Architectures has converted into an open-plan apartment (+ slideshow).

Belgian studio ADN Architectures added the two-storey structures on opposite sides of the space, loosely dividing a living room at one end from a central dining area and adjoining kitchen.

The architects used a mixture of solid and perforated metal to vary the transparency of the more secluded spaces within the towers, which comprise a bathroom and a utility room on the main level, and a bedroom and study on the upper levels.

Cantilevered staircases made from folded steel lead separately to the top-floor spaces and face one another across the dining area.

Describing their intervention as "two volumes and three pieces of furniture," the architects explained that they wanted to create a simple interior with a limited palette of materials and colours.

The pieces of built-in furniture mentioned are a kitchen counter, a bookshelf and a double-height wall of storage, which stretch along the two long sides of the apartment.

Concrete ceilings are left exposed and three columns come down to the meet the new flooring, which is made up of a polyurethane screed.

Let's get straight to the point: an imposed decorum, four walls and a few windows, functional needs to sleep, eat read and wash. Two internal bodies that embrace the envelope without touching it, opaque, translucent, airy, abstract.

A place: An unfinished surface of 96 square meters: walls made of terracotta blocks, raw concrete ceiling, windows on two of the four walls and two technical ducts.

A program: Designed it for a couple who want a loft conversion type of interior design with efficient use of space.

An answer: Seek purity of form and functional simplicity.

Means: Creation of a minimum of two new volumes and use of a very limited set of materials.

Organisation: Two volumes are built and three pieces of furniture are installed to structure the volume.

The two metallic volumes on the ground floor welcome the two functions that require doors that close: the bathroom and the laundry room. The top floors of the volumes conceal a bedroom and an office.

The position of these volumes alongside technical ducts determines different volumes with different qualities.

The three pieces of furniture then structure and give function to the remaining space: a long kitchen cabinet in a narrow space between the entrance and the laundry room, a wall of storage near the entrance and a library in the more intimate space that leads to the balcony.

The materials are polyurethane screed for the floor; solid or perforated metal for the structuring elements, stratified MDF for the furniture, with a paint finish to exacerbate the texture of the various materials. The ceiling is kept as is to remind of the pre-existing unified volume.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2013/11/26/loft-apartment-super-thin-staircases-adn-architectures/feed/10House NSV by ADN Architectures and Olivier Dubucq Architectehttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/11/08/house-nsv-by-adn-architectures/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/11/08/house-nsv-by-adn-architectures/#commentsMon, 08 Nov 2010 11:55:28 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=102203Belgian studio ADN Architectures in collaboration with Olivier Dubucq Architecte, have renovated this old farmhouse in Walhain, Belgium. Called House NSV, wonky beams and columns of the existing farmhouse are exposed throughout the interior space. The textured exterior façade is punctuated with windows in varying sizes. Photographs are by Filip Dujardin. Here's some more information from […]

The request of the client was the transformation of an old farmhouse composed of a main building and a cattle shed.

Following the first studies, the attention was focused on the main building, chosen by the client to install its house.

In a general way, the will was to the “patrimonial” setting ahead of the elements having a significant architectural value; the masonry or wooden structure of the roof for example.

This valorisation was supplemented by some specific contemporary interventions on the outside and by a deep refitting of the interior spaces.

The dwelling, very decayed, was consequently the object of a heavy restoration, only the basic structure (walls and roof structure) was being preserved.

A special attention was given to the structure: much reinforcement, out concrete, fastenings and ties, were necessary to maintain the existing structure.

On the outside, the “contemporary” interventions were established by successive keys while trying to find a dialogue between the old architecture and the new elements - forward setting of the entry by a natural concrete gantry just as bay of the stay towards the back garden, play of depth of the bays.

The external coating offers a texture that homogenizes the heteroclite masonry and accentuates the materiality, the plastic “sensuality” of the frontages.

An element made of birch is composed of various arrangements, the staircases, the cloakroom and the sanitary.

Men cross it; men borrow it, to reach the floors.

This architectural element shapes all over the width of the house, is turned over, gone up on the floors.

At the upper level, spaces let appear all their height under the roof, accentuating this, the bathrooms are volumes with flat roof on which is placed an indirect lighting.

Through various spaces of the dwelling, the three old wooden structures are magnified, crossing volumes, skirting walls, disappearing and appearing at other places, being based on a new structure.

A special attention was given to this old farm in order to meet the current energy standards and the comfort required for a family use in 2010 – roof, ground floor and walls insulation.

Radiant heating, solar panels for the hot water, re-use of the rainwater were included.

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]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2010/11/08/house-nsv-by-adn-architectures/feed/14House Satiya by ADN Architectureshttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/30/house-satiya-by-adn-architectures/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/30/house-satiya-by-adn-architectures/#commentsTue, 30 Mar 2010 03:02:56 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=71980Here's an extension to a family home in rural Belgium by Brussels studio ADN Architectures. Called House Satiya, the project features an inclined triangular skylight at one end of the pitched roof. White-painted brickwork and a black tiled sloping roof were used to tie in with existing local buildings. Photographs are by Filip Dujardin. See […]

The client wished to transform and extend his house to be able to accommodate a large family.

The existing situation, a working house of the years '30 of 100 m ², consequently will become a resolutely contemporary house of 350 m ².

The first will is to include the extension in continuity with the neighbourhood (inclined roof, black tiles, white painted bricks, etc).

Secondly, the intention is to reflect on creative architecture, as well by its external/interior geometry, as by a more significant dimension (reflexion on textures of the external facing amongst other things).

The extension results in a principle of envelope recovering a volume in which the included spaces are conceived like functionalized boxes.

A play of full and vacuum is set up and expresses the will of close, direct, generous relations between the various levels.

The external openings meet the internal needs for the house, with the specific choices of sights on the external environment, like the run of the sun during the day.

The street front defines clearly the position of the entrance.

External and interior volume is a set of diagonals inducing a dynamics of space.

The choice of abstraction by the black & white is a desire to propose the conceptual aspect of the project while allowing architecture built to put itself “besides”, to allow the space to live as such.

]]>http://www.dezeen.com/2010/03/30/house-satiya-by-adn-architectures/feed/8Bastogne by ADN Architectureshttp://www.dezeen.com/2010/02/12/bastogne-by-adn-architectures/
http://www.dezeen.com/2010/02/12/bastogne-by-adn-architectures/#commentsFri, 12 Feb 2010 06:00:36 +0000http://www.dezeen.com/?p=64348ADN architects of Belgium have completed the refurbishment of a house in La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, painting both the new plaster and original shale walls in white to exaggerate the different textures. Called Bastogne, the house utilises large white curtains to separate rooms and features exposed black cables hanging from the ceiling. The kitchen and bathroom […]

ADN architects of Belgium have completed the refurbishment of a house in La Roche-en-Ardenne, Belgium, painting both the new plaster and original shale walls in white to exaggerate the different textures.

Called Bastogne, the house utilises large white curtains to separate rooms and features exposed black cables hanging from the ceiling.

The kitchen and bathroom contain black blinds and polished-concrete work surfaces.

Here is some more information from the architects:

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To achieve a tension and duality between the existing situation and the foreseen intervention, the atmosphere is deliberately oriented towards streamlining, with a work on raw materials and an abstraction of spaces through the colour white.

One of the envisioned goals of the design is to highlight the “materiality” of the two shale dividing walls, the fitting and lime mortar grouting of which attest the history of the building.

The appearance of shale, the building’s main raw material, is made abstract behind the white paint coating.

The intent is to emphasize the rough feel of the texture, as opposed to the smoothness of the plastering, the concrete and the floors.